This volume is the first attempt in more than half a century to provide a field guide for beginning students and the nonspecialist reader. It selects about 600 of the most characteristic kinds of insects to represent the huge variety known.

This volume is the first attempt in more than half a century to provide a field guide for beginning students and the nonspecialist reader. It selects about 600 of the most characteristic kinds of insects to represent the huge variety known.